706,097Skilled Indian workers with an undergraduate or advanced degree waiting in line for green cards. The immigration process, says US President Donald Trump, will be temp­orarily suspended. Even if nothing changes, says the Cato Institute, an American think-tank, 205,665 Indians are likely to die while waiting for their green card; 44% of those remaining are expected to eventually receive their green cards after a 39-year wait.-$37.63The price of US oil when markets closed in New York on April 20, dipping below zero dollars for the first time. Essentially, American oil producers were so desperate to get rid of their stockpiles they were paying ‘buyers’ to take the oil off their hands..preferred-source-banner{ margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}5 millionAverage monthly searches for child pornography across 100 Indian cities, accor­ding to a report released in April by the India Child Protection Fund. More disturbingly, 18% of these searches were for children “choking, bleeding, tortured, in pain or scr­eaming”. The searches for this kind of material grew 200% during the lockdown.$3.17 billionVirgin Australia’s long-term debt. After travel bans, the airline cancelled flights and officially went into administration, having failed to secure a bailout loan from the Australian government. Currently looking for investors and buyers, it is the first long-haul carrier to effectively go out of business because of COVID-19. 2 Jamia Millia Islamia university students, Meeran Haider and Safoora Zargar, were arrested by Delhi police this month, despite the nationwide lockdown for their alleged role in the riots that convulsed northeast Delhi in February. Several online petitions demanded their release and a number of scholars, activists and rights organisations described the arrests as “arbitrary”. Earlier this month, the Delhi Minorities Commission accused the police of “randomly” arresting young Muslim men in northeast Delhi. The police insists that all arrests are based on evidence and that investigations have not stopped during the lockdown and nor should arrests. 1,800Names removed by Pakistan from its list of terrorists since March, says a New York-based agency that works with regulating such international lists. The number of names on the list declined from 7,600 in 2018 to fewer than 3,800 in the past 18 months.Published By: Iram Ara IbrahimPublished On: Apr 25, 2020--- ENDS ---
